Publication Date:
2012-10-30
Description:
Nature Genetics 44, 1231 (2012). doi:10.1038/ng.2424 Authors: Jianfeng Xu, Zengnan Mo, Dingwei Ye, Meilin Wang, Fang Liu, Guangfu Jin, Chuanliang Xu, Xiang Wang, Qiang Shao, Zhiwen Chen, Zhihua Tao, Jun Qi, Fangjian Zhou, Zhong Wang, Yaowen Fu, Dalin He, Qiang Wei, Jianming Guo, Denglong Wu, Xin Gao, Jianlin Yuan, Gongxian Wang, Yong Xu, Guozeng Wang, Haijun Yao, Pei Dong, Yang Jiao, Mo Shen, Jin Yang, Jun Ou-Yang, Haowen Jiang, Yao Zhu, Shancheng Ren, Zhengdong Zhang, Changjun Yin, Xu Gao, Bo Dai, Zhibin Hu, Yajun Yang, Qijun Wu, Hongyan Chen, Peng Peng, Ying Zheng, Xiaodong Zheng, Yongbing Xiang, Jirong Long, Jian Gong, Rong Na, Xiaoling Lin, Hongjie Yu, Zhong Wang, Sha Tao, Junjie Feng, Jishan Sun, Wennuan Liu, Ann Hsing, Jianyu Rao, Qiang Ding, Fredirik Wiklund, Henrik Gronberg, Xiao-Ou Shu, Wei Zheng, Hongbing Shen, Li Jin, Rong Shi, Daru Lu, Xuejun Zhang, Jielin Sun, S Lilly Zheng & Yinghao Sun Prostate cancer risk–associated variants have been reported in populations of European descent, African-Americans and Japanese using genome-wide association studies (GWAS). To systematically investigate prostate cancer risk–associated variants in Chinese men, we performed the first GWAS in Han Chinese. In addition to confirming several associations reported in other ancestry groups, this study identified two new risk-associated loci for prostate cancer on chromosomes 9q31.2 (rs817826, P = 5.45 × 10−14) and 19q13.4 (rs103294, P = 5.34 × 10−16) in 4,484 prostate cancer cases and 8,934 controls. The rs103294 marker at 19q13.4 is in strong linkage equilibrium with a 6.7-kb germline deletion that removes the first six of seven exons in LILRA3, a gene regulating inflammatory response, and was significantly associated with the mRNA expression of LILRA3 in T cells (P 〈 1 × 10−4). These findings may advance the understanding of genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer.
Print ISSN:
1061-4036
Electronic ISSN:
1546-1718
Topics:
Biology
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Medicine
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